the queer community was formed by people who were deemed strange and abnormal in society based on them not conforming to expectations about sexuality & gender. there are no specific boundaries bc this isn’t a club. a cishet guy that likes wearing dresses who fights side by side with us for true liberation, is 100x more queer than a millionaire gay man who’s besties with companies that sell us watered down versions of our own culture for profit during pride while donating to homophobic lawmakers every other month.
i’m gonna say this again because it really pissed some people off: yes, I would rather have a cishet GNC man who stands with queer people, is involved in our spaces and our culture, stands up for us when we are attacked, and is active in furthering queer liberation, than a rich gay man who spits on the lower-class queers who gave him the ability to be out, who sells his soul to corporations who couldn’t give less of a shit about us, just for the wealth and power of capitalism. Fuck that guy. I’m not saying he isn’t gay - he is! Nothing can take that away! But we have the saying “not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you” for a reason. The family-friendly gay millionaire isn’t my brother. The poor crossdresser who has been a part of this community since it’s inception is. Fuck your bootlicking bullshit.
yes evil gay man & our poor little cishet king
Looks like that saying came about in spring 2007… Pretty sure gay people have been around and had a community for longer than that.
Kind of like Queer people have been the center of the activism and the community for longer than the specific phrase “queer as in fuck you”
No one is saying that gay men are inherently not queer. What is being said here is that queer is a more nebulous and complicated label than just a synonym for LGBT specifically, and that much of its power is rooted in its disruptive and activist nature. That yes, cross dressers and drag queens, regardless of how they define their gender and sexuality, can and always have been part of the queer community- and often far more so than assimilationists who side with conservatives and reactionaries.
Edit: ahahahahaha blatantly trabsphobic posts once I check your page. Dammit, every God damn time it’s a transphobe. Yall are so predictable.
